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dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 12:22 PM Feb 2018

Steel McCain link

Last night Rachel, reported Steel had helped at least one president of the US(I'm thinking this was Obama), and that a former VP candidate was working with the Kremlin. I think this was likely, "I can see Russia from my house" Sarah Palin. It would then make since that, he likely has worked with and trusted McCain previously, therefore McCain ended up with the dossier.

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Steel McCain link (Original Post) dewsgirl Feb 2018 OP
Whaaaaat? Cracklin Charlie Feb 2018 #1
Read this very good WAPO article cilla4progress Feb 2018 #2
Thank you, I was trying to find it. dewsgirl Feb 2018 #3
More... cilla4progress Feb 2018 #4

cilla4progress

(24,587 posts)
2. Read this very good WAPO article
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 12:50 PM
Feb 2018

if you can get past the paywall.



Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation.


http://wapo.st/2BMGgeC

cilla4progress

(24,587 posts)
4. More...
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 12:57 PM
Feb 2018

In the fall of 2016, a little more than a month before Donald Trump was elected president, Christopher Steele had the undivided attention of the FBI.

For months, the British former spy had been working to alert the Americans to what he believed were disturbing ties Trump had to Russia. He had grown so worried about what he had learned from his Russia network about the Kremlin’s plans that he told colleagues it was like “sitting on a nuclear weapon.”

...

In the early fall, he and Burrows turned to Dearlove, their former MI6 boss, for advice. Sitting in winged chairs at the Garrick Club, one of London’s most venerable private establishments, under oil paintings of famed British playwrights, the two men shared their worries about what was happening in the United States. They asked for his guidance about how to handle their obligations to their client and the public, Dearlove recalled.

Dearlove said their situation reminded him of a predicament he had faced years earlier, when he was chief of station for British intelligence in Washington and alerted U.S. authorities to British information that a vice presidential hopeful had once been in communication with the Kremlin.
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